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The Heist
May 2024: Crime
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[BWF] The Heist by Janet Evanovich 3.5 stars rounded up
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I enjoyed this more than I did 4 years ago because I read it in print which works much better than the audiobook, so I'm bumping it up to 3.5 stars and rounding up. Since I've read so many books in between, much of this was fresh, although I did remember a couple of things. Once again I found this more fun than the Stephanie Plum series (although, to be fair, I did give a couple of the Plum books 4 stars, but got sick and tired of certain things after x number of books, in part the never ending love triangle.
Kate's is also witty, but a very different character than Stephanie, as in a former Navy Seal (yes, Evanovich and Goldburg knew there were no women Navy Seals by the time this book was written) who doesn't feel dressed without her gun. This series stays fun as long as it's Evanovich and Goldberg, but after that goes downhill because those two wrote well together.
Original Review
What fun! I like this better than Stephanie Plum because there is no love triangle, thankfully. And yes, note that the series is called Fox and O'Hare as in fox and hare. And, unlike Plum, O'Hare likes to carry weapons and knows how to use them--she is a kick-butt FBI field agent.
Kate O'Hare has spent 5 years hunting con artist Nick Fox, manages to nab him and then, in an aggravating play, learns that he has conned his way into working not only with the FBI but with her (since she's the only agent in the world who can get him and keep tabs on him even though he's wanted on 3 continents). What follows is a great deal of fun as Nick rounds up the members of their con team in order to take down a man who swindled investors out of $500,000 dollars and his crooked lawyer. I won't tell you which countries they visit in order to not spoil the story, but rest assured there are some unexpected surprises with villains who have nothing to do with their villains.
The one complaint I had was that the audiobook narrator is a man; it's rare I can accept an woman's POV from a male voice, but he's great at the men's and a good narrator. Too bad they didn't use two narrators because I think that would have been better.